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Metabolism
A temporary installation in the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. A hole is cut into a sealed over fireplace in what was once a boy's classroom.. A sound work is placed inside the chimney of a lesson being given on the human digestive system. A…
Ooh! Aah!
A temporary installation to accompany Suite Talk, for the Adelaide Festival Fringe. The work is made of books and has a sound work of a variety of exclamations.Excerpt from the Australian Sound Design Project
Braille Book
A cast book with a Braille text has photosensitive cells which when touched produce sounds which can be heard from speakers located around the ceiling. The sounds allude to the meaning of the text that can only be fully understood by Braille readers.…
Suite Talk
Artist StatementA double sided armchair made of secondhand hardcover novels contains a sound track of the continuous reading of a collaged narrative taken from 64 different novels. A quasi-narrative which never finds a resolution.
Attached By One's Own Action
A miniature TV monitor is embedded in an illustrated dictionary. A viewer can sit at a desk an put on earphones. The sound track is a monologue on reading & writing - the constructing of meaning through these practices. The video shows archival…
The Heart of the Matter
Two armchairs face each other across an island of carpet. One of them is occupied by a large red plastic love heart, steadily beating and pulsing with light. As anyone approaches, the heart beats faster and louder, subsiding as s/he moves away again.…
Carsick
Several sections of old cars have been dragged into the gallery and electronically activated in some way - by sound and/or video. This piece was made in collaboration with Anna Gibbs, Brad Clinch and Helen Britton. An additional sound track of a…
Make or Break
A temporary installation for an exhibition at the Women's Gallery in Melbourne - curated by Penny Webb. The work was made in collaboration with Anna Gibbs who wrote & performed the sound work with Nola Farman. The work used net hammocks &…
Suspended Disbelief
From within the pile of books, on an endless loop, comes the sound of two voices telling an endless story. The story is made from quotations from more than sixty different novels. The pieces are put together in such a way that they suggest a…
Notes for Walking (the space in between time)
Artist StatementNotes for Walking (the space in between time), [is] a locative artwork and app developed for Middle Head National Park, an abandoned naval fort in Sydney, NSW, and [was] presented during the Sydney Festival, 2013. In Notes for…
Of day, of night
Artist StatementOf day, of night ( 2002) is a major interactive narrative/ electronic hypertext operating at the intersection of narrative and interactive forms. Funded by the Australian Film Commission, the project integrates video, audio, stills,…
I Am A Singer
Artist StatementI Am A Singer is an experiment in multimedia writing, a search into approaches towards style and form, narrative structure, and notions of engagement within a multimedia context. Concerned with memory and identity, it tells the…
Tableau: Here
Tableau's premise is the city: Adelaide. As place, time, tense, sense. It's the 'about' of writing oneself autobiographically, through the physical stratas of city, and it's especially 'about' how to write that to/for someone, as audience/reader,…
Urban Codemakers: rezone the city through play
Artist StatementThe Urban Codemakers operated in Guildford Lane between August 2010 and February 2011. Their urban renewal project sought to rezone the city through play. It consists of three guilds, street signage, 100+ blog posts, four blogs, a…
Noemaflux
Artist StatementNoemaflux describes an act of shifting perception. The work is centered on an augmented reality that enables different ways of seeing the city. Participants use AR markers and generative writing systems to create an experience of…
Augmented Reality
Artist StatementThe nine signs for Ogaki in this work originate in Japan during a residency in September 2010 at IAMAS an Art & Science research institute in Japan. During this month I surveyed the small town of Ogaki via bicycle and identified…
Post-digital conversation
Artist StatementThe World Machine originates in Ludea. Its function is to transmutate the city streets to provide a suitable habitat for Ludean lifeforms. At its core are seven tags that appear in scenes that are at once familiar and alien…
Autograf
Artist StatementAutograf is an asemic writing system that generates tags by recombining marks and gestures used in graffiti tagging. The languages generated by this process are both familiar and alien its tags look like letters but remain…
Colony
Artist StatementColony is part artificial lifeform, part icon of a digital media landscape. The weathered totems use light and sound to communicate with one another in response to human presence. Affect the colour and sound patterns of the artwork by…